James W. Wilkin

James Whitney Wilkin (19 March 1762-23 February 1845) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-NY 6) from 1815 to 1819, succeeding Jonathan Fisk and preceding Walter Case.

Biography
James Whitney Wilkin was born in Wallkill, Ulster County, New York in 1762, and he served in the American Revolutionary War before becoming a lawyer in Goshen in 1788. He served in the State Assembly in 1796, 1808, and from 1808 to 1809, and he also served in the State Senate from 1801 to 1804 and from 1811 to 1814, in the US House of Representatives from 1815 to 1819, and as county Orange County clerk from 1819 to 1821. He died in 1845.